If there is one thing that I have learned is that to be an effective teacher, learning never ever ceases. Technology is always changing. It changes faster than our minds can think. So, to be a teacher who uses technology, I can't wait for the information to come to me. Resources are everywhere, and it is important for me to dive in and find it. This will require time, but it will be well worth it for my students.
As a student, it is easy to have a mindset that while you are in the classroom, you are learning. But when the school day ends, and it is time to go home - it's like the brain turns off from learning new things. As a teacher, I want to do my best to embed a new way of thinking in my students. I want to send learning outside of the classroom. I want to send it in to their homes. I want to send it to their community, to their playgrounds, to the supermarkets, to everywhere that the student goes. Because learning should never be confounded into four walls, but it should spark an interest to keep going. There is so much more!
As a teacher, I want to practice these things myself. I want to take what the students teach me outside of the walls of the classroom and expand on it and bring it back to teach them, and to teach the ones around me. Every day should be filled with learning, new knowledge, new ideas, and excitement!
So as a teacher, and to my students, LET'S DIVE IN!
About Me...
I am a Senior at the University of South Alabama majoring in Secondary Education with a double major in Social Science. I will be graduating in the Spring of 2011. After graduation, my goal is to be a high school history/psychology/sociology teacher locally here in Mobile, Alabama. I would like to come back to South Alabama to attend graduate school and obtain my Master's degree in Education.
